DDoS attack

Bluesky’s DDoS attack caused outages for a second day, disrupting feeds, notifications, and search across the platform.

distributed systems

Bluesky’s DDoS attack caused outages for a second day, disrupting feeds, notifications, and search across the platform.

US joins nearly two dozen other countries in striking back against DDoS-for-hire platforms

The U.S. and 20 other countries teamed up this week to take down dozens of websites behind cyberattack-for-hire services. As ...
Infosecurity Magazine

DDoS-For-Hire Services Disrupted by International Police Action in ‘Operation PowerOff’

Coordinated action by FBI, Europol and others seizes infrastructure, makes arrests – and sends warning letters to known DDoS ...

Operation PowerOFF identifies 75k DDoS users, takes down 53 domains

The latest wave of "Operation PowerOFF," on April 13, 2026, targeted the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ecosystem and ...

How Europol along with police of 21 countries tracked thousands from across the world engaged in DDoS-for-hire attacks, shutting down 50-plus domains

A massive international crackdown, Operation PowerOFF, has targeted over 75,000 users of illegal DDoS-for-hire services.
IEEE

Self-Adaptive Dual-Layer DDoS Mitigation using Autoencoder and Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have grown in complexity, with attackers dynamically adapting their strategies to maximize disruption. Dynamic DDoS adversaries evolve their ...
IEEE

BotNet-Inspired HTTP-Based DDoS Attack Prevention Using Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms in Internet of Things Devices

Abstract: DDoS attacks have emerged as the most serious Internet risks, causing significant damage to businesses and governments. This study utilized the BoT-IoT dataset obtained from the University ...